Will Cambodia open a big-game safari park?

If the Spanish company NSOK has anything to say about it, a large piece of the Southeast Asian country’s northeast will be converted into a hunting park where big spenders can come and shoot at things. 247,100 acres of Rattanakiri province is being considered by the Cambodian government and the Agriculture Ministry. Ministry deputy director Dany Cheang says the park will be aimed at: “high-class, VIP tourists…or professional hunters.”

Chaeng claims that the hunting facility would diversify the country’s ‘eco-tourism’ destinations. He says that a variety of expandable animals like deer, pigs, birds and reptiles would stock the park, but shooting tigers would be a no-no. How humane of Mr. Chaeng, to protect tigers and leave everything else to be blown apart by bored rich people with nothing better to do whose senses have been dulled by their lives of privilege.

A World Wildlife Fund representative in Cambodia, Chris Greenwood warned that “Anything that threatens the survival of already endangered species is not a good thing for conservation in Cambodia.”